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Warbird Kid
PostPosted: Mon Dec 30, 2013 10:46 am 
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In the capital city of Mérida, in Yucatán, Mexico lies the Manuel Crescencio Rejón International Airport. A quick survey of the airport quickly revealed a graveyard that seems to be in some "thick" brush. Anyone have any other info? Looks like a DC-7 with maybe a few C-46s or C-47s.

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Cant link directly to Google Maps from here. Anyone else?

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Warbird Kid wrote:
In the capital city of Mérida, in Yucatán, Mexico lies the Manuel Crescencio Rejón International Airport. A quick survey of the airport quickly revealed a graveyard that seems to be in some "thick" brush. Anyone have any other info? Looks like a DC-7 with maybe a few C-46s or C-47s.

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Cant link directly to Google Maps from here. Anyone else?

Looks like a DC-7C surrounded by a small fleet of DC-3's

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Have a look on google earth, go back to 2005/2006 and there is less undergrowth, you can then see 4 x DC-3's, the DC-7 ? and 3 other smaller aircraft to the left of those 5

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Thanks guys! So is there no interest to save these birds? Sucks to see them get covered up by the jungle!

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Andy Marden
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These aircraft should be:

DC-6B N8CA
C-47/DC-3: N18944, N61723, XA-RTC, XB-NAE

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What is being disassembled there on the edge of the heli-ramp--near the easternmost pad--about 200 yards north of the cluster of planes?"
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What is being disassembled there on the edge of the heli-ramp--near the easternmost pad--about 200 yards north of the cluster of planes?"

L-188 Electra sans outboard engines?

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Wings are too long to be an Electra. Possibly a Convair 580 or similar?

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The same plane (apparently before being dismantled) appears ON the helipad H in the Bing maps version of this photo.
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On the Bing maps the DC-6 is nearly hidden by trees and the C-47s are completely covered
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